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EVERY DAY'S WANTS, 

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Many valuable recipes, PRESCRIPTICNS AND SECRETS 

NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN PRINT, AND CONSEQUENTLY 

CAN NOT BE HAD FROM ANY OTHER SOURCE 

ALSO NUMEROUS OTHERS FOR HORSES, 

CATTLE, SHEEP. HOGS, ETC. 



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containim; 

maxy valuable recipes, prescriptions and secrets 

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also numerous others for horses, 

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RECIPES. 

Pure Vegetable Salve. I lb. lard, 1-2 lb. rosin and 10 oz. elder 
bark; boil thein over a slow Are half an hour, then strain and put up in small 
.Boxes. This sells at 2.') cents a box. 

Ague Pills. — Extract cornis florida 40 grains, piperine 20 grains, quinine 
20 grains; make into 20 pills. Sold at 25 cents a box at enormous profit. 

Magnetic Pain Killer and Toothache Drops. — Alcohol. 95 
per cent 2 oz., laudanum, 1-2 oz.. gum camplior 2 oz.. oil cloves 2 drs. ; mix and 
color with tinct. red sanders. 

Cure for a Felon. — Take rock salt, dry it in an oven, powder it fine, 
and mix it with spts turpentine, and poultice it thoroughly. 

Green Mountain Salve. — Por rheumatism, burns, pains in the back 
or side, etc. Take rosin 2 lbs., burgundy pitch 1-4 lb , beeswax 1-4 lb., mutton 
tallow 1-4 lb. ; melt slowly : when not too warm, add oil hemlock 1 oz., balsam 
fir 1 oz.. oil origanum 1 oz., oil red cedar 1 oz., Venice turpentine 1 oz., oil 
Avormwood 1 oz., verdigris 1-2 oz., (the verdigris 'must be finely pulverized and 
mixed with the oils) ; then add as above and work in cold water like wax till 
cold enough to roll. Rolls 5 inches long and 1 inch in diameter sell for 25 cts. 
Superior to Peleg White's salve. 



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To Cure Bleeding and Blind Piles. — This is the celebrated 
French surgeon (Dr. Ohevazzi's) great cui'c for piles. If the i^iles be very hot 
and painful, they should be well fomented by means gf a sponge, with hot camo- 
mile and poppy head tea, three times a day, for half an hour each time, and at 
bed-time a hot white bread poultice should be applied. If the heat be not great, 
and if the pain be not intense, the following ointment will be found eiBcacious : 
Powdered opium 1 scruple, camphor (powdered by means of a few drops spts. 
of wine,) 1-2 drachm, powdered galls one drachm, spermaceti ointment 3 
drachms ; mix. To be applied night and morning. The bowels should be kept 
gently opened by one or two teaspoonsful of compound confection of senna, 
taken every morning. The tea is made from 4 poppy-heads and 4 oz. camomile 
blows, boiled in two quarts water half an hour. This is a valuable recipe. 

To Cure Sick Headache. — Gather sumac leaves in the summer 
and spread them in the sun a few days to dry. Then powder them fine and 
smoke morning and evening for two weeks; also when there are symptoms of 
approaching headache. Use a new clay pipe. If these directions are adhered 
to, this medicine will surely effect a permanent cure. 

Cure for Dysentery. — Take new churned butter before it is washed 
or salted, clarify over the fire, and skim off the milky particles; add one-fourth 
brandy to preserve it, and loaf sugar to sweeten; let the patient (if an adult) take 
two tablespoonsful twice a day. The above is a sure cure, and is sold at a great 
profit. 

Whooping Cough. — Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a gill of 
water; add to it 10 grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an 
nfant a quarter teaspoonful four times a day; two years old half a teaspooniul; 
from four years a tablepoonful. Great care is required in the administration of 
medicine to infants. We can assure paternal inquirers that the foregoing maj- 
be depended upon. 

Dr. Parker's Great Cure for Diarrhoea and Ci^anaps in 
Stomach. — Two parts tincture camphor, tincture opium, tincture African 
cayenne, essence peppermint, 1 part tincture rhubarb: mix. Dose — half tea- 
spoonful for an adult, and from five to ten drops for a child. Repeat the dose 
in fifteen minutes if the patient is not relieved. Bathe the bowels with strong 
vinegar. This is one of the most valuable secrets that this book contains. It 
has saved hundreds of lives. If you manufacture this article and sell a few bot- 
tles in any locality, its great virtues will spread far and wide, and you will have 
orders from families, druggists, and others. Put up to retail for 2;') cents. 

Dropsy. — Take one pint of bruised mustard seed, t\yo Jiandsful of bruised 
horseradish root, eight ounces of lignum vitae cliips. and four ounces bruised 
Indian hemp root. Put all the ingredients in seven quarts of cider, and let it 
simmer over a slow fire until it is reduced to four quarts. Strain the decoction, 
and take wineglassful four times a day, for a few days, increasing the dosoto a 



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small teacupful three times»a da}\ After which use tonic medicines. This 
remedy has cured cases of dropsy in one week's time which had baffled the 
skill of many eminent physicians. For children the dose should be smaller. 

Sore an-d VVeak Eyes. — Sulphate of zinc three grains, tincture of 
opium ten drops, water two ounces. To be applied three or four times a day. 

AxOTHER: — Dissolve Ave grains acetate of morphine, ten grains sugar of lead, 
and six grains sulphate of zinc, into five ounces rose water. Bathe the eyes 
freely three times a day. For scrofulous sore eyes, ta,ke blue violets, dig them 
up, top and root, wash clean, dry them, and make a tea. Drink several times a 
day. wetting the eyes each time, and it will soon efEect a cure. 

Sore Throat. — Pour a pint of boiling water upon twenty or thirty leaves 
ot common sage, let the infusion stand for half an hour. Add vinegar sufficient 
to make it moderately acid, and honey according to the taste. It must be used 
several times a day. Another excellent remedy is a strong solution of salt and 
water. Gargle every hour. A wet towel worn on the throat at night will assist 
in effecting a cure. For putrid sore throat use a gargle of brewers' yeast six 
times a day, also bind thin slices of salt pork on the throat. 

Dyspepsia. — One of the iirst things to be attended to is to regulate the 
bowels, which in this disease are always in a costive state. The best means of 
keeping them loose is the eating of a handful of clean wheat bran once or twice 
a day. This is the most simple and efficacious method of cleansing the stomach. 
It may be eaten from the hand with a few swallows of water to wash it down ; 
also use, to regulate the stomach and bowels, the daily use of common salt, in 
teaspoonful doses, dissolved in half a tumblerful of water, taken in the morning 
fasting. Avoid rich diet, and use brown bread instead of that made of superfine 
flour. 

Dr. N. W. Perkin's Texas Vegetable, Blood and Liver 
Pills. The Best Pill in. the "World. — Two pounds of aloes, one 
pound of gamboge, four ounces of the e.Ktract of colocynth, half a pound of cas- 
tile soap, two fluid ounces of oil of peppermint, and one fluid drachm of cinna- 
mon. Mix and form into pills. These pills are the most celebrated of any in 
the world, and the fortunate manufacturer has accumulated over a million dol- 
lars from their sale. 

Toothache. — Take equal parts of camphor, sulphuric ether, ammonia 
laudanum, tincture cayenne, and one-eighth part of oil cloves. Mix well to- 
gether. Saturate with the liquid a small piece of cotton, and applj"- to the cavity 
of the diseased tooth, and the pain will cease immediately. Put up in long 
dracTim bottles. Retail at 25 cents. This is a very saleable preparation, and 
affords, a large profit to the manufacturer. 

Dr. William's Celebrated Three Minute Salve. — One 

poimd caustic potash, four ilrachms belladonna, two ounces pure oxide manganese, 



8 HOUK OF HKCiPKR. 

mix with half pint of water. Apply to shaved corn or wart a few minutes, then 
wash off and soak in sweet oil. Put up in drachm bottles with showy labels. 
Retails at 35 cents, wholesale 25 cents. 

Positive Cure for Ague \A^ithout Quinine. — Peruvian bark 
two ounces, wild cherry tree bark one ounce, cinnamon one drachm, capsicum, 
one teaspoonful, sulphur one ounce, port wine two quarts ; let it stand two days- 
Buy your Peruvian bark and pulverize it yourself, as it is often adulterated 
otherwise. Dose — one wineglassful every two or three hours after fever is off 
then two or three per day till all is used; a certain cure. Before taking the 
above cleanse the bowels with a dose of Epsom salts, or other purgative. 

For Flux, Diarrhoea, and Cholera Morbus.— Take a table- 
spoonful of wheat flour, put in one-half teacup of water, stir well and drink : 
repeat the dose in thirty minutes if not relieved. 

Fever and. Ague. — First clear the bowels with the fluid extract of 
senna and Jalep two drachms, infusion of cloves two ounces, mix. To be taken 
at a draught. In the cold stage give hot drinks, and try to excite warmth. In 
the hot ague give cooling drinks. Then give quinine one- scruple, alcohol four 
oimces, sulphuric acid five drop.s — (mix) in two tablespoonful doses every half 
hour; at the same time give five drop doses of tinctufc or fluid extract of vera- 
tum, and rub the patient with dry towels. In the intermission give three grain 
doses, once in four hours, and continue it a fortnight after the cessation of the 
attacks. 

The following is known as the Cuban remedy for chills and fever; Just before 
the approach of the fever, spread two plasters about two inches wide composed 
of black pepper bruised fine, (not ground) mixed into a paste with the white of 
an egg. Immediately before the fever comes, bind them on the inside of the 
wrists, and lie down. Do not remove them until the fever has passed off. If 
the fever is not entirol_y broken by the first application, apply fresh plasters of 
the same the next time the fever comes on. 

To Make your Teeth as "White as Snow — Take one part 
chloride of lime, and fifteen parts of prepared chalk, adding half an ounce of 
pulverized peruvian bark, and a few drops of otto of roses. Use it thoroughly 
morning and evening. 

Chapped Hands and Lips. — One-quarter pound of honey, and one- 
quarter pound of sal soda, with one pint of water. Apply often. 

Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs. — White sugar, three and one-half 
pounds, tincture of syrup of ipecac two ounces, antimonial wine one ounce, mor- 
phine five grains, dissolved in a tablespoonful of water, with ten drops sulphuric 
acid, half an ounce tincture blood root, one ounce syrup of tolu. Add these to 
the sugar, and mix the whole mass as the confectioners do for lozenges, and 



BOOK OF RECIPK8. 7 

cut intu lozenges the ordinary size. Use from six to twelve of these in twenty- 
four hours. These wafers are equal to any made, and are generally sold at high 
prices. 

Nervous Headache. — K.\tract hyoscyamus hve grains, pulverized 
camphor five grains; mix. Or three drojjs tincture of nux vomica, in a spoonful 
of water, two or three times a day. 

Cough Syrup. — Put one quart iioarhouud iov one quart water, and boil 
it down to a pint, and two or three sticks of liquorice and a tablespoonful of 
essence of lemon. Take a teaspoonful three times a day, or as often as the 
cough may be troublesome. This recipe has been sold for one hundred dollars 
Several tirms are making much money by its nianufactin-e. 

Costiveness. — Oommon charcoal is liighly reconunended for costiveness. 
It may be taken in tea or tablespoonful or even larger doses, according to the 
exigencies of the case, mixed with mohisses. repeating it as often as necessary. 
Bathe the bowels with pepper and \ incgar. Or take two ounces rhubarb, add 
one ounce of rust of iron, infuse in (piart of wine. Half a wineglassful every 
morning. Or take pulverized blood root imc dracluii. [)ulverized rhubarb one 
drachm, castile soap two scruples: mix and roll into thirty-two pills. Take one 
morning and niglit. By following these directions it may perhaps save you 
fi-om a very severe attack of the jiiles. or some other kimired disease. 

Ringworm. — The head is to be washed twice a day with soft soap and 
warm soft water; when dried the places to be rubbed with a piece >^f linen rag 
dipped in ammonia from gas tar ; the patient should take a little sulphur and 
molasses, or some other genuine aperient every morning; brushes and combs 
should be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked. 

Worm Tea. — Carolina pink-root, senna leaf, manna and American worm 
seed, of each one-half ounce. Bruise and pour on Vjoiling water one pint, and 
steep without boiling ; sweeten well, and add half as much milk. Dose — a child 
of five years may take one gill tliree times daily before meals, or sufficient to 
move the bowels rather freely. 

"•Ole Perk's" Lininient. — Two ounces oil origanum, two ounces 
laudanum, two ounces spirits nitre, one ounce oil spike, one ounce oil worm- 
wood, one ounce camphor, one ounce hartshorn, four ounces ariifca, one quart 
spirits wine. For strains, add one ounce British oil. 

Bleeding from the Nose, from whate\er cause may generally be 
stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostril ; if this does not do, apply a 
cold lotion to the forehead; raise the head, and place both arms over the head, 
so that it will rest on both hands ; dip the lint plug, slight!}' moistened, into 
some powdered gum arable, and plug the nostrils again; or dip the plug into 
equal parts of powdered gum arable and alum. An easier and simpler method 



S BOOK OF RECIPES. 

is to place a piece of writing- paper ou the gum of the upper jaw, under the 
upper Hp, and let it remain there for a few minutes. 

Poisons. — As a general rule, give emetics after poisons that cause sleepi- 
ness and raving ; chalk, milk, butter, and warm water or oil, after poisons that 
cause vomitings and pain in the stomach and bowels, with purging; and when 
there is no inflammation about the throat, tickle it with a feather to excite 
vomiting. Always send immediately for a medical man. 

Dry Cough. — Take of powdered gum arable half au ounce, liquorice- 
juice half an ounce. Dissolve the gum first in warm water, squeeze in the juice 
of a lemon, then add of paregoric two drachms, syrup of squiUs one drachm. 
Cork all in a bottle and shake well. Take one teasiioonful when the cough is 
troublesome. 

Ointment for Old Sores.— Red precipitate one-half ounce, sugar 
of lead one-half ounce, burnt alum one ounce, white vitriol one-fourth ounce, or 
a little less: all to be finely pulverized. Have mutton tallow made warm one- 
half pound. Stir all in, and stir until cold. 

Inflammatory Rlieuinatism and Neuralgia. — Sulphur and 
saltpetre, of each one ounce, gum guaiac one-half ounce, colchicum root or seed 
and nutmegs of each one-fourth ounce; all to be pulverized and mixed with 
simple syrup or molasses two ounces. Dose — one teaspoonful every two hours 
until it moves the bowels rather freely; then three or four times daily until 
cured. At the same time use this liniment: Olive oil, spirits of camphor, and 
chloroform, of each two ounces; sassafras oil one teaspoonful; first add the oil 
0)f sassafras to the olive oil, then the spirits of camphor, aisd shake well before 
putting in the chloroform: shaking when used. Keep well corked, as the 
chloroform evaporates very fast if left open. Apply three or four times daily, 
rubbing it well and always toward^ the body. .^ 

Cancer. — The following is said to be a sure cure for cancer: A piece of 
sticking plaster is put over the cancer with a circular piece cut out of the cen- 
tre, a little larger than the cancer, so that the cancer and a small circular rim 
of healthy skin next to it is exposed. Then a plaster made of cloride zinc, blood 
root and wheat flour, is spread on a piece of muslin the size of the circular open- 
ing, and applied*to the cancer for twenty-four hours. On removing it the can- 
cer will be found burned into and appear of the color and hardness of an old 
shoe sole, and the circular rim outside of it will appear white and parboiled, as 
if scalded by hot steam. The wound is now dressed, and the outside rim soon 
separates, and the cancer comes out in a hard lump, and the jjlace heals up. 
The plaster kills the cancer, so that it sloughs like dead flesh, and never grows 
again. The remedy was discovered by Dr. King, of London, and has been used 
by him for several years with unfailing success, and not a case has been known 
of the reappearance of the cancer when this remedy has been applied. 



BOOK OF RECIPES. 9 

Eye Salve. — Take white precipitate oue teaspoouful, and rub into a salve 
with three teaspoonsful of fresh lard, and apply on the outside of the lid. This 
cures the worst cases, even where the eye-lashes had fallen out. 

Dr. Lamott's Great Cure for Consumption. — Extract of 
French lungas root half an ounce, tincture of cantheria plant, two drachms, 
extract blodgetti two ounces, hypophospite of Hme one-half ounce, alantin 
(Pura) one drachm, extract cinchona two drachms, best loaf sugar one pound, 
pure port wine one-half pint, water one quart. 

To prepare the above recipe properly, the tinctures, extracts and powders 
should be well compounded, and placed in a vessel or bottle, holding at least two 
quarts ; then pour into the bottle about half a pint of hot water. Let it stand 
ten minutes, and add a pint of hot water with the sugar dissolved in it; also 
add the wine. Shake well, and when cold it is ready for use. Dose — one large 
tablespoonf ul three times a day. This wonderful medicine is the only certain 
cure for consumption, asthma and bronchitis as yet discovered by medical men, 
and we know that consumptives have been restored to perfect health by this 
valuable remedy. 

Pain Killer. — Said to be Perry Davis'. — Alcohol oue quart, gum guaiac 
one ounce, gums myrrh and camphor and cayenne pulverized, of each one-half 
ounce ; mix. Shake occasionally for a week or ten days, and filter or let it set- 
tle for use. Apply freely to surface pains; or may be taken internally in tea- 
spoon doses, and repeated according to necessities. 

Medieamentum. the Master of all Aches and Pains.— 

Alcohol one gallon, oil of sassfras five ounces, oil of hemlock five ounces, oil of 
wintergreen five ounces, oil of Origanum five ounces, oil of spruce five ounces, 
spirits turpentine, two ounces, tincture guaiac five ounces, tincture catechu five 
ounces, tincture opuim ten ounces, tincture capsicum five ounces, chloroform 
oue ounce, balsam fir one ounce, aqua ammonia ten ounces, sulphuric ether five 
ounces, extract galangal ten ounces. Plxtract galangal is extract catarrh root. 
DIRECTIONS FOR USING THE MEDICAMENTUM 

Bloody Flux and Diarrhcea. — Take one or two teaspoonsful in a wine glass 
of water three times a day. 
' Nervous Headache. — Bathe the head and temples freely. 

Sick Headache. — Take a teaspoonful in a wine glass of water, and bathe the 
head also, and before you retire at night ,take a dose of my Texas Liver Pills. 

Earache. — Wet cotton q^ wool and put it in the ear. 

Toothache. — Wet cotton or wool and apply it to the part affected. 

Neuralgia and Spinal Affections. — Bathe immediately over the part 
affected four or five times a day, and cover it with a woolen cloth saturated with 
the Medicajientum. Keep the bowels open with Texas Liver Pills. 

Sore Throat. — Take internally one teaspoonful iu a little water, and bathe 
outside three times a day. 

Colic and Cramp. — Take internally one to two teaspoonsful in a wine glass of 
water, and bathe the stomacli and bowels with the Medieamentum. 



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Rheumatism. — Take a teaspoonful of the MedicanienLuui m a half teacup full 
of warm sage tea every four hours during the day. At night take a dose of my 
Texas Liver Pills. Second day repeat the same omitting the pills. Third day 
take a teaspoonful of the Medicaraentum in a wine glass of water three times a 
day and continue for several days. Take one or two pills every second or third 
night. On the third day commence bathing the affected parts with warm water^ 
hot as the patient can bear it; rub hard for ten minutes, then apply the Medica- 
raentum and rub hard for ten minutes longer three times a day, and continue 
until a cure is effected. 

Pain in Back or Side. — Bathe immediately over the part affected three times 
a day, and cover with a woolen cloth. 

Coughs and Colds.— Take a teaspoonful in a little water three times a day. 
Keep the bowels open with Texas Liver Pills. 

Sprains, Bruises and other Wounds. — Apply a bandago and occasionally 
wet with Medicamentum. 

Burns, Scalds, Etc. — Dilute the medicine, saturate bandage with it and apply. 
Inklamation of the Kidneys. — Take one teaspoonful every night and morn- 
ing in a wine glass of water for four or live days: bathe the back immediately 
over the kidneys with the same medicine night and morning. Keep the bowels 
open with Texas Liver Pills. 

Asthma. — Take a teaspoonful in a little water ; bathe llie breast and ciiest 
very freely. 

Piles. — Take one teaspoonful in a wine glass of water, night and morning, for 
one or two days, and apply externally with the finger. Dilute one-half water 
every operation. 

Sore and Weak Eyes. — Close the eyes and bathe around. Avoid getting any 
of the solution in the eye ; keep the eyes closed until the smarting has passed 
away. Xo article equals the Medicamentum for the eye and ear. 
Sprains. — Apply a bandage occasiotially wet with the medicine. 
Deafness. — One drop in the ear, and bathe around the ear night and morning 
for several days. 

Inflammation of the Lunws and Stomach. — Bathe and lay on cloth wet 
with warm water and Medicamentum mixed half and half, and repeat often until 
relieved. 

Stings of Lvsects and Poisonous Reptiles. — Take a teaspoonful in a wine 
glass of water, and keep the wounded parts covered with a cloth well saturated 
with the Medicamentum till relieved. 

For Colic or Botts in Horses. — Grive ten teaspooiftful of the Meuicamer.tum 
in a quart of water. 

For Old Sorbs or S.^-Ddle and Harness Galls. — Wash with castile soap 
three times a day, and apply the Medicamentum. 

The above directions are for adults. Give to children in proportion to age. 

For Children Teething. — For a child under one j^ear old, from two to five 

drops in a teaspoonful of breast milk or water, one to three times a day. One to 

two years old, five to ten drops one to three times a day. Always shake the 

bottle before using, and keep it well corked. 



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Anti-Billious Pills. — Tartar emetic eighteen grains, calomel seven and 
a half drachms, aloes socotrine fifteen scruples, gamboge, powdered, seventy- 
live grains, compound extract colocynth ten and a half scruples, extract conium 
seven and a half scruples, oil bla ck pepper ninety drops. Mix and make three 
hundred pills. Give three at a dose. Mix with mucillage of gum arable. 

Dr. Perkins Great Southern Fever and Ague Cure. — 

Take one quart of alcohol, add six ounces of chinoidine ; shake it up often and 
let remain until dissolved; then add sixty grains of capsicum, two ounces of 
cream of tartar and one quart of whisky. Directions — Take a dose of my Blood 
and Liver Pills; after they have operated thoroughly take a small teaspoonful 
of the tonic in a wine glass of water every two hours, commencing so as to take 
eight or ten doses before the next chill. After the chill is broken take one or 
two pills every second or third night, and a dose of tonic three times a day for 
four weeks and good by chills. For children in proportion to ago. 

Dr. Reeve's Celebrated Cure for Pneumonia. — Butterfly 
root two ounces, black root two ounces, snake root two ounces, pulverized 
lobelia seed two ounces, ginger two ounces, capsicum one-half ounce, cinanmon 
bark, pulverized, one-half ounce, blood root one-half ounce. Mix with one pint 
hot water. G-ive one or two tablespoonsful every two hours. Sweeten with 
honey. 

Cure for Ringbone and Spavin. — Take pulverized cantharides, 
British oil, oils of origanum and amber, and spirits turpentine, of each one 
ounce; olive oil one-half ounce, oil*of vitriol three drachms. Put all except the 
vitriol into a little alcohol; stir the mixture; then slowly add the vitriol, and 
continue to stir until the mixture is, complete, which is known by its ceasing to 
smoke. Bottle for use. Directions: — Tie a piece of sponge upon a stick and 
rub the i)reparatiou upon the ringbone or spavin as long as it is absorbed into 
the parts; twenty-four hours after grease well with lard, and in two hours 
more, wash off well with soap suds. Ringbones generally require two or three 
applications; spavins one or two, three or four days apart, to prevent the loss 
of hair. Said to cure wind galls and splints. 

Bone Spavin. — A $SOO Recipe. — Corrosive Subhmate, quick silver, 
and iodine of each one ounce ; only sufficient to form a paste. Directions ; — 
Rub the quicksilver and iodine together, then adding the sublimate and then 
the lard, rubbing thoroughly. Shave off the hair the size of the bone enlarge- 
ment; then grease all around it, but not where the hair is shaved off; this pre- 
vents the action of the medicine only upon the spavin. Now rub in as much of 
the paste as will lie on a three-cent piece only, each morning for four mornings 
only. In from seven to eight days the whole spavin will come out. Then wash 
out the wound with suds, soaking well for an hour or two, which removes the 
poisonous effects of the medicine ; then heal up with any good salve. 

Cure for Sv/eeny. — Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each eight 



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ounces, camphor gum one ounce, pulverized cantharides one ounce, tincture of 
capsium oil of spike three ounces ; mix. Bathe the liniment in with a hot iron. 

Cure for Founder. — Draw about one gallon of hlood from the neck, 
then drench the horse with linseed oil one quart Bathe his fore legs and rub 
well with water as hot as can be borne without scalding ; take off his shoes, 
get some fresh cow manure and some old rags and make a poultice and put on 
both fore feet, cover the hoof up to the hair, tie a string around each ankle, let 
it remain eighteen or twenty-four hours, then remove and put on fresh ones 
every day until cured. Tie him in the stable to keep him from walking about. 
Feed on light diet — bran mash, oats, hay or fodder, but no corn for three or 
four days. 

Recipe for the Blood. — Stomach and Worm Powders, 
and Inward Fevers. — Black antimonj- one pound, cape aloes one pound, 
blood root one pound, black cohosh one pound, Foeuugreek seed one pound, 
alum one pound, coperas one pound, rosin one pound, salt petre two pounds, 
sulphur four pounds, Quaker asp bark iive pounds, ground flax seed six pounds. 

All the above pulverized and thoroughly mixed. Dose — Give from one to two 
tablespoonsful once a day in dry bran, and salt as the nature of the case maj' 
require. Every fourth day give a small feed of bran and oats, scalded. 

Inflammation of the Stomach. — Sage tea one pint, sugar one- 
fourth pound, alum one-half ounce. Dissolve in the tea, and give to the horse, 
followed in thirty minutes with a pint of raw linseed oil. 

Colic. — Tincture Asafoetida one and a half ounces, spirits nitre one and a 
half ounces, tincture laudanum one and a half ounces. Give in six ounces water, 
milk warm, follow in thirty minutes with one and a half pints raw linseed oil. 

Cure for Poll Evil and Fistula. — Open the sore with a knife, 
then roll thirty grains of arsenic up in a small piece of paper, and press it down 
to the bottom of the cut and let it remain there eighteen days. Then pare out 
the dead flesh; wash it with soap every d&y. Heal it up with rosin and mutton 
tallow in equal portions. 

Cure for Old Cuts. — Mix arsenic and lard together; apply everj- day 
and wash with soap. Heal as in the above recipe. 

Spavin. — Take oil of amber, oil of spike and spirits of turpentine equal 
parts ; warm them on some warm ashes with no blaze, and apply them as warm 
as you can to the spavin, by pouring it on and rubbing it in well with the ball 
of your thumb, having first shaved the hair off the spavin. This must be re- 
peated twice a day for two days, when if well rubbed it will become a running 
sore. Wet a sponge with the substance and apply it twice a day for three days ; 
then stop for three days, and if the spavin has not disappeared, repeat the 
course for three days longer. Let the sore heal, wash it with suds from castile 
soap. The spavin will disappear. 



BOOK OF RECIPES. l.i 

Scratches. — Wash in coperas or blue-stone water, :>ud exercise freely. 

Bolts Cured. — By giving from one to tvro gallons new milk. It may be 
relieved by half a pint of tar and lard cake. A good purge. 

Big Head. — In this disease the face vives are affected. They are the two 
ligatures that play up and down on each side of the nose, when a horse uses 
his lips. They are to be cut where they leave tlie eye and where they termi- 
nate at the nose, and^withdrawn at tlie upper cut. Big jaw is a similar affec- 
tion and requires the same treatment. And they are frequently relieved b}- ex- 
tracting the tooth near the part affected. 

Wounds, Cuts or Snags. — Bathe in cold water; keep the swel ing 
down, and at night put on some honey. 

Cure for Blind Staggers. — Take one ounce of laudanum, one ounce 
of hartshorn; mi.^, and pour half into each ear, and tie them with a string to 
keep it from running out ; bleed well in the mouth first. 

Horse Tainer's Secret — How to Tame the Wildest 
Horse. — Take finely grated horse castor, oils rhodium and cummin; keep 
these in separate bottles well corked ; put some of the oil of cummin on your 
hand and approach the horse on the windy side. He will then move towards 
you; then rub some of the cummin on his nose, give him a little of the castor 
on anything he likes, and get eight or ten drops of the oil of rhodium on his 
tongue; you can then get him to do anything you like. Be kind and attentive 
to the animal and your control is certain. 

Before applAdng the above the following directions should be ob.served : A 
strong band should be placed around the horse just back of the fore shoulder : 
to this sling the fore foot, making the horse go on three legs. Now gently lead 
the horse around on a good bed of straw. This should be continued until the 
horse is exhausted and lays down ; then the above receipt will be useful. It 
will be found that the most vicious horse will give up to this treatment and will 
acknowledge you as his master. Great gentleness should be observed,. and if 
the horse is not tamed by the first trial, it should be repeated. But after all, as 
much depends upon the person as on the recipe and strap. Some will tame the 
wildest horse and drive him through the street without a bridle, while others 
can do nothing with the tamest horse. This formula is of great value lo all, 
and in the hands of the, right person will work wonders. 



TRICKS FOR HORSE JOCKEYS. 

How to Make a Foundered and Spavined Horse Go 
Off Liiniber. — Take tincture cayenne one ounce, laudanum two ounces, 
alcohol one pint ; rub the shoulders well with warm water, then rub the above 
on his shoulders and back bone : give him one ounce of laudanum and one pint 



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of gin ; put it down his throat with a pint bottle ; put his feet in warm water as 
hot as he can bear it; talie a httle spirits of turpentine, rub it on the bottom part 
of his feet with a sponge after taking tliem out of the water; drive him about 
half a mile or a mile, until he comes out as limber as a rag. If he does not sur- 
render to his pain, tie a thin cord to the end of his tongue. 

Ho>A'^ to Make Old Horses Appear Young. — Take tincture 
of assofoetida one ounce, tincture cantharides one ounce, oil cloves one ounce, 
oil cinnamon one ounce, antimony two ounces, foenugreek one ounce, fourth 
proof brandy half gallon; let it stand ten days, then give ten drops in one gal- 
lon of water. , 

How to Make a Horse Appear as If Foundered.— Take 

a fine wire or any substitue, and fasten h around the postern joint at night 
smooth the hair down over it nicely, and by morning he will walk as stilf as if 
foundered. 

How to Make a Horse Fleshy in a Short Time. — Feed 
with buckwheat bran, to which add a little of the shorts ; keep in a dark stable. 
Half a day's drive will make a horse fatted in this way poor. 

How to Make a Horse Stand by his Feed and Not Eat 

it. — Grease the front teeth and roof of the mouth with common tallow, and he 
will not eat until you wash it out. 

Ho>Ar to Make a True Pulling Horse Baulk.— Take tincture 
of cantharides one ounce, and corrosive sublimate one drachm ; mix, and bathe 
the shoulders at night. 

Howto Distinguish between Distemper and Glanders. 

— The discharge from the nose, if glanders, will sink in water ; if distemper it 
will not. 

To Make a Horse Appear as if he had the Glanders. — 

Melt fresh butter and pour into his ears. 

Tp Stop Blood. — When a horse bleeds too freely from being bled in 
the mouth, the blood cen be checked, and almost instantlj'^ stopped, by placing 
a silver dollar under his tongue; or take a piece of cloth or brown paper, lay it 
in your hand, and pour on gun powder enough to cover the cavity, and hold it 
light five minutes, or until the blood stops. 

Prescription for Preventing Spanish Fever, Dry Mur- 
rain, and Black Leg in Cattle. — One pound of black antimony, two 
pounds of sulphur, fifteen pounds of salt. 

Directions for Use. — Mix the above with one bushel of bran, and give to 
your cattle the same as ordinary salting, being _ sure ^always to give your cattle 
plenty of fresh water. 



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BOOK OF RECIPKS. 15 

Powders for Scab and Foot Rot in Sheep.— One potmd of 
coporas, well pulverized, two pounds of sulphur, and fifteen pounds of salt. 
These ingredients are to be well mixed together, and frequently given to the 
animal. 

To Kill the Scab. — Take one ounce of the tincture of iodine, two ounces of 
rain water. Mix them and wash the sore. 

To OuRE Foot Rot. — One ounce of the tincture of iitdine, one-fourth ounce of 
corrosive sublimate. Clean the foot well, and wet the sore with the mixture. 
Keep the sheep dry for at least twelve hours or longer. 

Cure for Scab and Ticks on Sheep. — Immediately after shear- 
ing, get a- tub or tight box that will hold about two barrels of liquid, place it 
convenient to the pen where the sheep are; then make a table about three feet 
square, place it on one edge of your tub with the outside the highes; so that the 
drip from the sheep will run back into the tub. Place a large pot over the fire 
filled with r.iin water ; put in about ten pounds of tobacco, more or less, accord- 
ing to the strength of it — cheap damaged tobacco is as good as any — to one bar- 
rel of liquid , add one-half pound of coperas . bring to a boil aud cool down to 
milk-warm ; put into the tub. Lot two men take hold of each sheep, one at tlie 
head, the other at the hind feet, lift him into the tub with his back down; put 
liim down under so as to wet hun all but his head and ears. Soon as he is wet 
all over, let go his hind legs and let iiim stand up in the tub. then lift him on the 
tai'le, let him drip half a minute, and then turn him loose. Two good hands can 
dip sixty head of sheep per hour with a good hand to catch the sheep for them. 
Continue to add more water, tobacco aud coperas, until you go through your 
whole tlock. 

Recipe for the Prevention of Hog Cliolera.— Two bushels 
unslacked lime, four pounds sal soda, one pound mandrake root, ground, one 
poinid garget root, ground, one pound saltpetre, one pound ginger, one pound 
sulphur, twenty-tive bushels slacked coal, two bushels salt, one-fourth pound 
concentrated lye. Put the coal and lime together, slack the lime with the coal, 
add all the other ingredients, fine pulverized, mix thoroughly and give the hogs 
free access to it. When coal cannot be obtained, use bran. The above quantity 
of medicine is enough preventive to keep one hundred hogs healthy for one 
year. 

Recipe for the Prevention of Hog Cholera.— Two pounds, 
unslacked lime, one pound sal soda, six ounces mandrake root, ground, six 
ounces garget root, ground, six ounces saltpetre, six ounces coperas, six ounces 
ginger, six ounces sulphur, one ounce concentrated lye. 

Put all the above ingredients into an earthen vessel, pour on two gallons of 
boiling water, cover to keep from steaming away ; when cold, add eight ounces 
tincture asafcetida. Dose — In an ordinary case three ounces in one quart slops 
every six hours, for three or four days. Symptoms of disease — Black, hardness of 
the dung, short hacking cough, and running at the eyes. "When these symptoms 
appear, put your hogs away from water, and give the remedy as above directed. 



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For Chicken Cholera. — Use the above recipe, omitting the man- 
drake root, and adding ten gallons water then moisten corn meal with the liquid 
and feed. 

Cure for Hog Cholera. — A correspondent of the Kansas Farmer 
says a farmer in this county, extensively engaged in the hog business, there and 
in Marshall county, and A»ho has suffered from the loss of over one hundred 
hogs this year, has a remedy which he says cures in every, case. The remedy 
is so simjjle and costs so little, that I hope all our farmers will try it, and report 
your success. My informant breaks a box of concentrated lye into a barrel of 
clean water, and when the lye is dissolved, give it to the hogs as drink. A 
neighbor who had lost some two hunftlred hogs this season, tried the cure, with 
entire success; every one of the sick hogs got well, and none have sickened 
since. He says he had in his feeding lot a hog which would weigh four hun- 
dred pounds, so near dead that he thought it useles to try to save him, but 
second thought said, try anyhow. So he rolled him on hi.s back and poured a 
pint of the Hquid, made stronger tlian that in the barrel, dov\-n his throat, and 
in less than an hour, porker was on his feet, cracking corn nearly as lively as 
ever. 

Baking Powder for Biscuit ^^^ithout Shortning. — Bicar- 
bonate of soda four ounces, cream of tartar eight ounces, carbonate ammonia one 
ounce, and properly dry them and thoroughlj'' mix. It should be kept in well- 
corked bottles to prevent dampness, which neutralizes the acid. Use about three 
teaspoonsful to one quart of flour. Being baked, mix with milk, if you liave it; 
if not, wet up witli cold water and put directly into the oven to bake. 

For Making Honey vs^ithout Bees. — Take ten pounds of good 
light moist (brown sugar, three pounds of soft water, two and one-half pounds of 
rendered bee-bread honey, forty grains of cream of tartar, one ounce extract of 
vanilla, one-half ounce gum arable, ten drops essence of wintergreen; put into 
a brass or copper kettle', and let them boil for five minutes ; then take two tea- 
spoonsful of pulverized slippery elm, and mix with one pound of water, then 
strain it and mix into the kettle, take it off and beat up the white of two eggs 
and stir them in ; let it stand two minutes, then skim it well, and when nearly 
cold add one pound of pure rendered bees honey, and so on for larger quantities. 
By adding more slippery elm to a proportionate quantity of water, the manufac- 
turer can make it as cheap as he pleases, as a small quantity of slippery elm 
will thicken a pail of wtiter to the consistency of honey. 

N- B. — What we mean by bee-bread honey, is that made by the bees in the 
fall of the year, to subsist on during the winter, it being much stronger than 
that made in the spring. If that cannot be procured, honey in the comb will 
answer the same purpose, by putting in one-half pound more than is given ia 
the recipe, but makes considerable difference in the price. 

Angler's Secret. — The juice of lovage or smellage mixed witli any kind 



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of bait, or a few drops of the oil of rhodium. If India coclde i-s mixed with 
flour dough and sprinkled on the surface of the water, it will intoxicate the fish 
and make them turn up insensible on the surface : they can then be lifted into 
a tub of fresh water to revive them, when they can be used without fear. But 
thi.s process will destroy many lish. 

Ainerican Commercial Writing Ink.— Take one-fourth pound 
extract of logwood to one gallon clear soft water ; heat to a boiling point in a 
perfectly clean iron kettle, skim well — stu-; add ninety grains bi-chroraate of 
potash, fifteen grains prussiate of potash, dissolve in one-half pint of hot water. 
Then stir for three minutes, take off, strain. 

Dr. Duval's Medicated Lemonade. — White sugar one pound, 
tartaric acid four ounces, essence lemon thirty-six drops, water three quarts ; 
mix. 

How to Remove Tan, Blotches, Freckles, Pimples, &e. 

— To two gallons strong soapsuds, add one pint pure alcohol and four ounces 
rosemary : mix them well together. Apply with a linen rag twice a day until 
the ol)ject is effected. 

Liquid Glue. — Dissolve one ounce of borax in a pint of boiling water; 
add two ounces shellac, and boil in a covered vessel until the lac is dissolved. 
This forms a very useful and cheap cement, and withstands damp much better 
than the common glue. This is superior to any prepared glue in market. 

Phosphorus Paste for Destroying Rats and Mice. — Melt 
oae poimd of lard, with a verj' gentle heat, in a large mouthed bottle or other 
vessel plunged into warip water; then add half an ounce of phosphorus, and 
one pint of proof spirit ; cork the bottle securely, and as it cools shake it fre- 
quently, so as to mix the phosphorus uniformly ; when cold, pour off the spirit 
(which may be preserved for the same purpose,) and thicken the mixture with 
Hour. Small portions of this paste may be placed near the rat holes, and being 
luminous in the dark it attracts them, is eaten greedily, and is certainly fatal. 
Put up in small tin boxes, and sell it at 25 cents each. There is a firm in New 
York city that has made over thirty thousand dollars manufactvuing this article. 

World's Fair Premium Vinegar. — Take five gallons lukewarm 
water, add one pound cream tartar, two pounds alum, one gallon common molas- 
ses, half gallon of whisky, one gallon of yeast. Let all stand in the warm water 
one hour to dissolve, then add cold water. Let stand three days with the bung 
open. This makes forty-two gallons. In all cases the barrel should be full. 

Young's Chinese Perfumed Starch Polish.— Melt over a 
slow fire five pounds refinded paraffine. and when it is all melted add two hun- 
dred drops oil of citronelli. Place several new round pie pans, well oiled with 
lard oil or sweet oil, on a level table, and pour about six teaspoonsful of the 



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polish into biich pHii. Let Uieia stand uulii tliey ure cool euoiigh to lift into a 
pail or basin of water: let the pan float on the Avater a moment so as to cool the 
bottom, and then submorn-e or press down the pan into the water, until it is cool 
enough to stamp the polish out into cakes. This must be done before it gets 
too hard, and therefore it will rociuii'c close watching. Ha\e a round tin stamp 
made to cut ctd^es about the size of a candy lozenge. Stamp them out and let 
them cool well before taking them out of the pans. Put up in square paper 
boxes (nine cakes in each, retail at 5 cents a box.) Thirty cakes in oval boxes 
25 cents. The cost of the 25 cent boxes, filled ready for market, is about 5 1-2 
or G cents; the small size boxes about 1 1-2 cents. They are also put up in 10 
cent boxes, which is a very saleable size. Directions — To a pint of boiling 
starch stir in two of the cakes or tablets, or three to a quart. This gives an ele- 
gant lustre to the linen or muslin, and imparts a splendid perfume to the clothes, 
and makes the iron pass very smoothly over the surface. It requires but half 
the ordinary labor to do an ironing. It is admired by every lady. It prevents 
the iron from adhering to the surface, and the clothes remain clean and neat 
much longer than by any other method known. Over six thousand stores arc 
selling this article in New York and Brooklyn. For ladies, we know of no busi- 
ness so suitable and pleasant to engage in. 

To Remove Grease or Stains froin Clothing.— Ordinary 

benzine is as good a grease eradicator as is now used. Pnt up in four ounce 
bottles and label it "The Nation's G-rease Fxtractor.'' and sell tor 2U or 25 cents. 
Benzine generally costs about 15 cents a gallon. Dip the corks in wax. 

Chinese Cement. — Take one pound of pulverized white shellac, and 
two ounces of clear gum mastic; put them into a bottle and add halt a pound of 
sulphuric ether; let it stand half an hour and add twoiquarts of alcoliol. Shake 
occasionally until dissolved. Keep away from fires and lamps when mixing or 
usino- it. Bottle in small vials and keep them corked tightly. Heat the edges 
of the article to be mended, aTid apply the cement with a small pencil brush, or 
otherwise. 

Cement for Broken China, Glass, &e.— The following recipe, 
from experience, we know to be a good one, and, being nearly colorless, it pos- 
sessess advantages which liquid glue and other cements do not: Dissolve half 
an ounce of gum acacia in a wineglass of boiling water ; add plaster of Paris 
sufficient to form a thick paste, and apply with a brush to the parts required to 
be cemented together. 

Best Blacking for Boots and Shoes.— Ivory black one and a 

hal* ounces, molasses one and a half ounces, sperm oil three drachms, strong oil 
of vitriol three drachms, common vinegar half a pint Mix the ivory black, 
molasses and vinegar together, the mix the sperm oil and oil of vitriol separa- 
tely, and add them to the other mixture. 

Soldering. — The parts all around the place to be soldered or mended. 



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should be scraped perfectlj' bright with au old knife or otiicr sharp iustruineiit. 
After the scraping in finished, put a few drops of the soldering fluid on tlic 
place by nieaus of a short stick, having a small swab or piece of cloth at the 
end. Then take two or three pieces of solder about as big as shot, lay them on 
the place to be mended, and hold the article over a lamp, or apply heat in any 
way most convenient. When the solder melts it will spread wherever the fluid 
was applied, so that thiid should lie applied wherever is is desired to have the 
solder flow. 

To Make the Fluid. — Dissolve two ounces oi zinc in four ounces of muriatic 
acid in a glass vessel; then dissolve one ounce of sal ammonia in four gills of 
water and add to the other mixture. Use care in handling the acid, not to get 
it on your clothes or in your eyes. Bottle in one-quarter ounce bottles and label. 

To Make the Solder — Melt together four parts of lead, three parts of tin 
and two parts of bismuth. Run it into small sticks ; or cut it up into small 
pieces the size of large shot. The solder used in tinshops will not melt so easily 
as this, but can be used if heat enough is applied. 

Cider without Apples. — Water one gallon, common sugar one pound, 
tartaric acid one-half ounce, yeast one tablespoonf ul ; shake well; make in the 
evening and it will be fit for use the next day. In quantities for bottling, put 
in a barrel five gallons hot water, thirty pounds common sugar, three-fourths 
pound tartaric acid, twenty-five gallons cold water, three pints liop or brewers' 
yeast, worked into paste with one pint water and one pound flour. Let it work 
in the barrel forty-eight hours, the yeast running out at the bung all the time, 
putting in a little occasionally to keep it full, then bottle, putting in two or three 
broken raisins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal champagne. 

ChaiTipagne Cider. — Water one hhd., good pale cider one hhd., molas- 
ses fifty pounds, dissolved alum one-half pound : mix, match with brimstone, 
excellent. 

To Make Starch Polish. — Take one part white wax, and two parts 
spermaceti, melt and cast into cakes of about two-thirds of an ounce each — 
which sells quick at niuepence, and affords more than 700 per cent profit. Direc- 
tions. Put into a pint of starch the size of a pea. and it will give a beautiful 
polish, and prevent the iron from sticking. 

To Destroy Flies in a Room. — Take a half teaspoonCul of black 
pepper, one teaspoonful of brown sugar, and one tablespoonful of cream ; mix 
them well together, and place them in a room on a plate, where the flies are 
troublesome, and they will soon disappear. 

Preserving Eggs. — The following mixture was patented several years 
ago by Mr. Jayne, of Sheffield, England. He alleged that by means of it he could 
keep eggs two years. A part of his composition is often made use of — perhaps 
the whole of it would be better. Put into a tub or vessel one bushel of quick 
lime, two pounds of salt, half a pound of cream of tartar, and mix the same to- 



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gether, with as much water as will reduce the composition or mixture, to that 
consistence that it will cause an egg put into it to swim with the top just above 
the liquid; then put and keep the eggs therein. 

To Make Champagne Cider for Four Cents a Gallon. 

— Take five gallons lukewarm water, add one gallon common molasses, three 
pounds of brown sugar, one gallon of vinegar, one gallon of yeast, quarter of a 
pound of tartaric acid. Let it stand in the warm water to dissolve one hour, 
then add cold water. Let stand forty-eight hours to work with bung out. This 
maives forty-two gallons. In all cases the barrel should be full. To keep for a 
length of time add one pound of Mustard. Bottle and seal it well. 

To Clear your Dwellings from Bed Bugs.— Corrosive subli- 
mate and the white of an egg beat together, and laid with a feather around the 
crevices of the bedsteads and the sacking, is verj^ effectual in destroying bugs 
in them. Tansey is also said to be very effectual in keeping them away. Strew 
it under the sacking bottom. The best exterminator is black pulverized helle- 
bore root; it destroys them. Place it where the bugs will be likeiy to crawl. 

To Make Paint for One Cent a Pound. — To one gallon of soft 
hot water, add four pounds sulphate zinc, (crude.) Let it dissolve perfectly, 
and a sediment will settle at the bottom. Turn the clear solution into another 
vessel. To one gallon of paint, (lead and oil) mix one gallon of the compound. 
Stir it into the paint slowly for fifteen minutes, and the compound and paint 
will perfectly combine. If too thick, thin it with turpentine. This recipe has 
been sold to painters as high as $100 for the privilege to use the same in their 
business. 

To Make Hens Lay the Whole Year. — Give each hen half an 
ouuce of fresh meat every daj', and mix a small amount of red pepper with their 
food during the winter. Give them plenty of grain, water, gravel and lime, and 
allow no cocks to run with them. 

How to Raise a Moustache in Six Weeks. — Tincture of ben- 
zoin compound two drachms, tincture Spanish flies two drachms, castor oil six 
ounces, oil bergamot one drachm, oil verbena fifteen drops, strong alcohol nine 
ounces. Circulation should be stimulated first by friction with a rough towel. 
Apply to the whiskers and moustache morning and evening for four weeks. 

Leather Cement. — Take ten parts of sulphide of carbon and mix with 
one part of oil of turpentine, and add enough gutta percha to make a tough 
thickly flowing liquid. The surfaces to be joined must be perfectly free from 
grease. If oily, lay a cloth upon the oily surface and apply a hot flat-iron 
until the grease is all absorbed. After the cement is applied to both edges, join 
them and keep under pressure until dry. 

To Make Cucumber Vines Bear Five Crops. — When a cu- 
cumber is taken from the vine let it be cut with a knife, leaving about the eighth 



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of an inch of the cucumber on the stem, then sUt the stem with a knife from its 
end to the vine, leaving a small portion of the cucumber on each division, and 
on each separate slit there will be a new cucumber as large as the first. 

Tobaeeo Cure. — Take of rosin seventy-two ninety-sixths, beeswax 
eight ninety-sixths, white wax four ninety-sixths, poplar bark four ninety-sixths, 
cayenne pepper one ninety-sixth, plantain four ninety-sixths, and A'irginia 
snakeroot three ninety-sixth parts. Mix thoroughly, and use whenever there is 
a hankering for tobacco. Thirty days will usually destroy all appetite for either 
chewing or smoking. 

Cure for Drunkenness. — Sulphate oi iron three grains, Magnesia 
ten grains, peppermint water eleven drachms, spirits nutmeg one drachm ; to be 
taken once or twice a day, if necessary, for five or six months. This preparation 
acts as a tonic and stimulant, and supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, 
preventing the moral and physical prostration which follows the sudden break- 
ing off from the use of strong drink. The above would generally have to be 
used with the consent of the patient. If it is desired to use a remedy without 
the knowledge of the patient, take eight grains of tartar emetic and mix in four 
ounces of rose w^ater; put a tablespoonful into the whole quantitj- the person is 
in the habit of drinking in one day , or, say a small teaspoonful in each glass. 
5e sure and not exceed this quantity. 



" Ole Perk's" Washing Compound. — Take three pounds of 
sal soda, half pound of fresh unslacked lime, half pound of pulverized borax, 
one-quarter pound of pulverized rosin, two ounces of salts of tartar, and two 
ounces of liquid ammonia. Dissolve the soda, borax and rosin in one gallon of 
boiling water, to which add, when cold, the salts of tartar and liquid ammonia. 
Boil the lime for five minutes in one gallon of water ; let stand until thoroughly 
settled, when the clear fluid should be carefully drawn off; add to this the 
clear fluid of tlte first mixture, with four gallons of cold water, and yon have six 
gallons of the compound. Bottle and cork tightly for use. Directions — Select 
from the clothes to be washed, all the coarse and dirtiest pieces from the fine, 
and after rubbing soft soap on the collars and wristbands, put them in separate 
tubs of water to soak over night, pressing them down well before putting on the 
water. In the morning have rcadj^ four gallons of hot water in your boiler, to 
which add one-half pint of the compound and one-half pint of soft soap. "While 
the mixture is heating, the clothes should be wrung from the cold water and 
placed in a tub, and should be covered with this mixture when it is hot, to re- 
main fifteen minutes. They should then be wrung out and boiled for five 
minutes in a mixture like that previously prepared. Suds and blue them and 
hang them out to drj-. Should it not be convenient to soak the clothes over 
night, wet them with cold water and soak in the hot mixture for twenty-five 
minutes, and proceed as above, and the clothes will look beautifully white. 
Should the wristbands or very dirty parts require a little rubbing through the 
hands, it should be done while the second mixture is heating. In using this 



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compound, ;ill the line clothes should be gone through with fir.st. as colored^ 
very dirty or greasy clothes ought not to be boiled with those of tiner fabric 
and containing less dirt, as the water in which they are boiled must partake of 
more or less of their contents. The same Avater that has Iwsen used for the finer 
clothes will also do for the coarse and colored. Care should be taken not to have 
the water too hot when the clothes are covered in the morning, nor should the 
clothes be boiled too long, as too much boiling is apt to give them a yellow 
tinge. J^^^If more convenient, use one-fourth pound ol' ''hard soap," instead 
of soft " soap." 

Liquid Blueing for Clothes. — One ounce of the best pulverized 
Prussian blue, one-half ounce pulverized oxalic acid, one quart of soft water; 
mix. The acid dissolves the blue and holds it evenly in the water, so that speck- 
ing will never occur. One or two tablespoonsful of it is sufficient for a tub of 
water, according to size of the Avash. This is far preferable to the l)lueing sold 
in stores, and is much cheaper. 

British Enaniel for Shirt Bosoms — Melt together, with gentle 
heat, one ounce white wax and two ounces spermaceti. Prepare in the usual 
way, a sufficient quantity of starch for a dozen bosoms ; put into it a piece of 
the enamel the size of a large pea, and in the same proj^ortiou for a larger iron- 
ing. It will give your clothes a beautiful polish. 

VVater-Proof Oil Blacking. — Camphene one pint, add all the India 
rubber it will dissolve; currier's oil one pint, tallow seven pounds, lamp black 
two ounces. Mix thorouglih' by heat. 

To Cure Hams. — They should not be packed till cold ; should Lie put 
into clean, sweet casks, care being taken not to put the back of one tiat on the 
top of another ; placmg them on the end or side is the best. A little Turk's 
Island salt should be sprinkled in the bottom of the cask and between the laj'ers, 
using about one pound of salt to one hundred pounds of lia.m'in packing. Then 
for a pickle, use either of the following recipes : 

1. For every sixty pounds of meat, take five Pounds of Turk's Island salt, 
one ounce of saltpetre, two ounces saleratus, three or four gills of good molasses, 
and pure rain or soft spring water enough to cover the meat three or four inches; 
boil and skim well, and put on cold. 

2. For every one hundred pounds of meat, take eight pounds of Turk's 
Island salt, two ounces saltpetre, four ounces saleratus, one quart of good molas- 
ses, and pure rain or soft spring water enough to cover the meat four or five 
inches ; boil and skim well, and put on cold. 

The hams may remain in the pickle from five to seven weeks, according to 
their size; then be taken out, washed off, and hung up to smoke. Use green 
hickory wood for smoking, smoke onlj' in dry weather, and do not begin to 
smoke until they have hung a day or two. When smoked, keep them in a drj', 
dark place, away from files and vermin. 



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Either uf the jibove recipes make iia excellent pickle fur beef. After the hams 
are taken out to smoke, the brine may be boiled and skimmed, addinp: a little 
salt, and nsed in u different cask for beef. Small families may lind this very 
convenient. 

To Make as Much Butter from One Cow as you now 
do from two. — Take equal parts of pulverized bicarbonate of .soda and of 
alum, aud thoroughly mix together. Ten cents worth of each will be sufficient 
to make a very large quantity of butter. Take one pound of butter and one pint 
and a lialf of unskimmed milk ; put in a churn and add the yolk of an egg, and 
put in as much of the compound of soda and alum as will lie on a tliree-cent 
coin or on the tip of a knife blade: churn the whole from live to ten minutes, 
when the entire quantity will come to tirst-class, sweet and wholesome butter. 
After the butter has come, put in the requisite amoiuit of salt and churn it in 
before taking the butter out. 

The foregoing proportion will make two pounds of butter. We have given 
proportions for this small quantity in order to simplify the process. The pro- 
cess will work the same way for making larger quantities provided the same 
pi'oportion of ingredients is used. The cost of the extra butter produced is less 
than two cents per pound, and is in every waj' a superior article. It. is not ne- 
cessary to use thi; best, of butter in this jjrocess, as the chemicals used cleanse 
and sweeten the entire mass. The egg is used only to give the butter color, and 
in its stead either a decoction of saffron, or the juice of carrot may be usedi 
botli of which arc not only harmless but beneficial. 

To Make a Barrel of Good Soap. — Dissolve fifteen pounds of bar 
soap in fifteen gallons boiling water, and let it get cold. Cut up the soap in 
slices. When cold it will be thick like jelly. Dissolve fifteen pounds of sal 
soda in fifteen gallons more of boihng water, which will take three minutes, 
then add to this composition six pounds of tmslacked lime; let these articles 
boil together twenty minutes. When cold and settled, turn off this fluid, and 
stir it with the soap; be careful not to disturb the sediment, then add three 
pints of alcohol, and stir all the articles together, 

Wash Equal to Paint. — Take a half bushel of unslacked lime, and 
slack it with boiling water, cover it during the process. Strain it and add a 
peck of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice boiled to a 
thin paste put in boiling hot, half pound Spanish whiting, and one pound of 
clear glue dissolved in warm water. Mix and let it stand several days. Keep 
it in a kettle, and put it on as hot as possible with a brush. 

The above is the recipe used for the President's house at Washington. It is 
said to look as well and last as long as oil paint, on wood, brick or stone. 

Moths. — A very pleasant perftnne and also preventive against moths, may 
be made of the following ingredients , Take of cloves, caraway seeds, nutmeg, 
mace, cinnamon, and Tonquin beans, of each one ounce; then add as much Flor- 



24 BOOK OF REGiPKS. 

LMitiuL' orris-rool as will equal the other ingredients put together. G-rind the 
whole well 10 ;i powder, and then put in little bags among 3'our clothes, etc. 

Cheap and Good Vinegar. — To eight gallons of clear rain water 
aild three quarts of molasses: turn the mixture into a clean tight cask, shake it 
well two or three times, and add three spoonsful of good yeast, or two j^east 
cakes, place the cask in a warm place, and in tea or twelve days add a sheet of 
coaimon brown wrapping paper, smeared with molasses, and torn into narrow 
strips, and you will soon have good vinegar. The paper is necessary to form 
the '• mother " or life of the vinegar. 

Plant Protector and Insect Destroyer. — Take thirty gallons 
stable liquor, one pound carbonate ammonia, one pound potash, one gallon whale 
oil, one quart pine tar, and one quart coal tar. Put all into a tight barrel with 
one head out; let it stand a week; stir up from the bottom four or live times 
every day ; then take ten gallons rain water, add one pound Pai'is green, one 
pound white hellebore. Mix it well, and pour it into a barrel, and stir every 
time you take any out. For fruit trees, take a white-wash brush and go over 
the bodies of your trees the same as }'ou would whitewash a fence or anything 
else. For your garden, use a sprinkler. For cotton worm, either have a sprink- 
ler made, or take a common store sprinkler, stop up about up about half of the 
holes, get on a horse and ride betweerf the cotton rows, and scatter it all over. 
Coal tar can be had for a trifle anywhere there is gas works. For stable liquor, 
till a leach with horse manure, the same as you would to make soap, and pour 
on water; and if not strong enough, pour back and drip it through twice. 

To Keep Iv. eat Fresh in Warni Weather. — For every one 
hundred pounds of meat, take ten pounds Turk's Island salt, two ounces salt- 
petre three ounces saleratu.s, one pint of good molasses, and pure rain or spring 
water enough to cover the meat four inches. Boil and skim well, and put on 
cold; lot it remain five or six weeks, then either smoke it or throw away the 
old brine, and make a new brine the same as before. 

Cider for Long Keeping. — Place in a keg cold water ten gallons, 
brown sugar seven and a half pounds, tartaric acid one-fourth pound, dried sour 
apples one and one-half pounds ; cut fine or boil them, and pour in the expressed 
juice. Put in a cellar or cool place in summer time. The darker the sugar the 
more nat\u-ul will be the color of the cider. 



nsroTicE. 

Be it remembered, that every person who purchases a copy of this book, has 
a right to manufacture and sell or give away any article mentioned in the book, 
but all persons found dealing in the recipes, either selling, giving away or 
teaching others outside of his or her own family, will be prosecuted under the 
Patent Right Laws of the United States, as a copy right is already secured. 

X. W. PERKINS. 



INDEX. 



Angler's Secret IG 

Ao-ue Cure G-l I 

■" Pills 3 

Baking P. wder 16 

Bed Bug Poisuu 20 

Blacking, for shoes IS 

" water proof 22 

Bleeding at the Nose 7 

Blueing, (hquid) 22 

Botts, see Horse Remedies 10-13 

Bruises 10 

Burns 10 

Butter, how to increase 23 

Cancer 8 

Cattle, Fever and Murrain 14 

" Black Leg 14 

Cement, Chinese 18 

" Glass 18 

" Leather 20 

Chapi:)ed Hands and Lips 6 

Chicken Cholera IG 

Cider 19 

" Chamijagne 19-20 

" to keep long 24 

Cholera Morbus 6 

Coughs and Colds 10 

Cough Syrup 7 

Consumption „ 9 

CoStiveness 7 

Cramps 4-9 

Cucumbers, (to grow fast) 20 

Deafness 10 

Diarrhoea 4-6-9 

Dropsy 4 



Dry Cough 8 

Dysentery 4 

Dyspepsia 5 

Drunkenness 21 

Karache. 9 

Eye Salve 9 

Eye Water 5 

Eyes, sore or weak 5-10 

Egg Preservative 19 

Face Wash (for pimples, etc.) 17 

Felon, cure of :-i 

Fistula (see Horse Remedies) 12 

Flux 9 

Glue (liquid) 17 

Grease Extractor 18 

Hams (how to cure) 22 

Headache, Nervous 7-9 

Sick 4-9 

Hens (to make lay) 20 

Honey. Artificial 16 

Hog Cholea , 15-16 

I[0R8E REMEDIES. 

Botts lO-l:-! 

Bone Spavin n 

Big Head \?, 

Bleeding, to stop 14 

Blind Staggers 13 

Blood Purifier 12 

Colic 10-12 

Distemper and Glanders 14 

Fistula I'j 

Founder 12 

Harness Galls ]o 



Inflammation, Stomach 12 | 

Old Sores.. ■ - •■•• 10 

Poll Evil 12 

Powders 12 

Ringbone /1-12 

Scratches 13 

Spavin 11-12 

Sweeny H 

Tamer's Secret 13 

Tricks with Horses 14 

" of Jockeys 13 

Inflammation of Kidneys 10 

'• of Lungs 10 

Ink 17 

InsectjWash 24 

Lemonade 1'' 

Liniment, "Ole Perk's" T 

Meat Preservative , 24 

Medicamentum 9-10 

Moth Preventive 23 

Moustache, to grow 20 

Neuralgia 8-9 

Ointment for Old Sores 8 

Pain Killer 3 

" in Back 10 

Paint, for dwellings ..20 

'• wash 23 

Piles 4-10 

puis, Anti Billious U 

" Ague 3 

" Texas Vegetable 5 

Pneumonia 11 



Poisons, what to do 8 

" for Flies 19 

" for Rats and Mice 17 

Rheumatism 8-10 

Ringworm T 

Salve, Eye 9 

" Green Mountain 3 

" Three Minute 5 

" Vegetable 3 

Scalds 10 

Sheep, Rot and Scab 15 

" Ticks 15 

Soap 23 

Soldering 18 

Sprains ;...10 

Starch, Enamel 22 

" Polish. 17-19 

Stings of lusects 10 

" of Reptiles 10 

Sweeny (see Horse Remedies) 11 

Teething Children 10 

Toothache 3-5-9 

Tooth Powder G 

Tobacco Antidote 21 

Vinegar 17-24 

Wafers for Coughs 6 

Wash to kill Insects 24 

Washing Compound, "Ole Perk's "...21 

Whitewash 23 

Whooping Cough 4 

Worm Tea 7 

Wounds 10 



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